A reminder: Colossians 2

2 I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. 2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. 5 For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
Spiritual Fullness in Christ


6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rootedand built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.


8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world rather than on Christ.


9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[b] was put off when you were circumcised by[c] Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.


13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d]alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.[e]
Freedom From Human Rules


16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.


20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

Ending

The times shall come to an end,

Marked by the fires of the coming King,

Knowledge of this had already been penned,

Through John when he was dreaming,

From heaven our Saviour shall descend,

His reign on earth, the believer's blessing,

Thinkers and philosophers, the gospel will offend,

To the faithful it is surely dazzling.

Petición

Hearts asunder,

Words a blunder,

The torn gets a snicker,

By believers through slander.

Efforts totter,

As hopes stutter,

The steward in sombre,

By the words of a believing prater.

Wake up, wake up, oh you foolish slumberer,

I plead to you as a repentant brother,

Don't you see that we have only been a spoiler,

Whilst being called to be God's own vicar.

See the lies by the evil tempter,

Do not partake in the avocations of a sinner,

Lest we be disqualified by heaven's own sifter,

Repent oh repent my dear brothers and sisters.

Let us be Christ's own spotter,

The plans of the enemy we shall always sever,

Through faith in Christ our one true saviour,

And the power of the Holy Spirit as our daily skipper.

αντίμο

Faith like a child,
Can often be misfiled,
To believe even when you're beguiled,
To love despite being reviled,
To have patience whilst being riled,
All this, our very own LORD's brainchild,
Defiance of logic; against the norm of society's values of being selfish styled,
Suffering and abuse against Him it unpiled,
And yet through it all.. He still smiled.
That is, my friend, a faith of a child.

A shade of grey

Every time my hopes are high,
Always a case where fulfilment were nigh,
"Tumbling down it comes", I hear it cry,
My heart as it makes an expression so wry,
Wrenching it is but I have no other choice than to comply,
When this hope wishes to rekindle like the promise of a rainbow in the sky,
I have given up before, but my heart cannot lie,
Of the scarce but sweet memories of you in the months even before July,
Or even the way you say hi,
Leaving a taste of joy and hope which is so sly,
Burning you off when you get too close like the fire burns the attracted fly,
I sometimes wonder why'd I even try,
So do I or do I not say goodbye,
For this is the last chance I'll ever give my heart to you before it loses it foci.

Bearing the cross

Unspoken horrors,
Unmistakable consequences,
Unable to wake up from these nightmares.

What is it to hope in the Lord?
What is it to have joy in Him?
I thought I knew but I guess I was mistaken.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.


Hard pressed but feeling almost crushed.
Perplexed and on the brink of despair.
Persecuted with an empty feeling of being forsaken.
Struck down countless times but not destroyed, left wheeling in the mud, left wheeling in helplessness.

Certainly my body is dying, as well as my spirit. What life is there to hope in when my hopes are always cut off. I am tired of being delivered to death. I'm tired of this endless battle with no end in view.

Lord, just have mercy on me. If you push me any more, I might not make it for the grief would be too big to even to desire to live. Take it all from my shoulders, take it all from my hands. Avert this cup of wrath, deliver me from these flames.

Expectations

This is just a random train of thought of which I have just come upon.

*inserts the "I like trains" clip from the asdf movie*

I believe and do think that certain christians, a minority of them, are the biggest self inglorious hypocrites of all time. Now let me speak in a first person view for an easier explanation of the thoughts in my mind, so I'll utilize the word "we" but God forbid that I ever become or am such a hypocrite myself. If I am, please do tell me or perhaps give me a slap on my right and left cheek. So with disclaimers in mind, I am representing the minority of self inglorious hypocrites without being one myself, of course if I am one, I'd probably top the list with this hypocritical post.

So, with that in mind, we as self inglorious hypocritical christians or SIHC in short (my fingers are too lazy), think that we have all the problems in the world facing us and we're all alone in the epic struggle to achieve a rather comfortable lifestyle. < HELLO, does it ring a bell here? > Everyone suffers, c'mon! Not only you, you dingbat SIHC. but as Christians we're called to revel in such suffering which is also can be referenced as one of the fruit of the spirit, long-suffering.

Okay, I'm going straight to the issue here. To you SICHs', please do not expect other Christians to be perfect and go all self righteous when we accidently wrong you cause we are not perfect, if you want a perfect expectation then there can only be one person you can look for which is our Lord Jesus who is the epitome of perfection!

So go eat a sock and cover your fingers with 10 layers of thick wool gloves so that I don't hear nor see any typed rant posts from you on social media websites about how people have disappointed you and yada yada jaja binks.

Well. okay, that's about it from me now. Time to go back to studying.